NEGOTIATION OF MEANING BY SECOND YEAR STUDENTS
WITH EXTROVERT AND INTROVERT PERSONALITIES
AT SMA AL KAUTSAR BANDAR LAMPUNG

DESI RAHAYU, (1013042002)
(2016)
NEGOTIATION OF MEANING BY SECOND YEAR STUDENTS
WITH EXTROVERT AND INTROVERT PERSONALITIES
AT SMA AL KAUTSAR BANDAR LAMPUNG.
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION, UNIVERSITAS LAMPUNG.

Abstrak

There are some factors that influence the way people negotiate the meaning, such
as group arrangement, kinds of task, language proficiency, and personality. This
study aimed to find out how the students with extrovert personality differ from the
students with introvert personality in terms of C-Unit production and negotiating
the meaning. The writer conducted the research in class XI Science 1 of SMA Al
Kautsar Bandar Lampung. A set of questionnaire was used to classify the students
into exrovert and introvert groups. Based on the questionnaire result, 6 students
with the most extrovert personality and 6 students with the most introvert
personality were taken as the subjects of this research. The data of this research
were the recording of the students’ conversations while accomplishing
information gap tasks in dyads arrangement.
The result showed that the extrovert students talked more often than those of the
introverts. The extroverts also spent longer time in speaking and accomplished the
task better than those of the introverts. In this case, the extroverts were not shy to
ask for a help from others, they tended to talk to their partner when they were
facing a problem in their communication through clarifying their understanding or
asking for more information. On the other hand, the introvert students tended to
solve the communication problems by themselves and they barely asked for help.
Thus, the introverts produced a less number of C-Units than those of the
extroverts.
Since the extroverts solved the communication problem by asking question to
their partner, they produced a lot of signals in a communication with negotiation
of meaning. Those signals produced by the extroverts, of course, were followed
by a number of responses from their partner. However, in this case the extroverts
produced more number of signals than the number of reponse. It was caused by
their characteristics in which they not only were bad listener but also liked to ask
questions. Meanwhile, the introverts mostly produced hesitation sounds when
they were not sure about what they heard. But, their introvert partners could sense
this hesitation as a signal of lack of understanding so the partners produced
additional responses to help other introverts understand. Thus, introverts produced
a bigger number of responses than the number of signal. In the other words,
personality factors influence the way people communicate.